[open-energy] Icons

[Jonathan Gray]

Thanks to the magic of the internet [1], someone also suggested:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Icons

J.

http://twitter.com/#!/lukask/status/30616533029888001

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Gregor Aisch <gka at vis4.net> wrote:
> Ok, thanks. Good to know.
>
>
>
> Am 27.01.2011 14:03, schrieb Jonathan Gray:
>>
>> Dear Gregor,
>>
>> The icons you have pointed to are really nice, but, in order to make
>> sure that we and others don't have problems reusing or redistributing
>> the visualisations we produce downstream, it would be good to make
>> sure that everything we do is open as in opendefinition.org.
>>
>> Here are some other fully open icon collections:
>>
>> http://ckan.net/tag/icons
>>
>> If you need further help looking for these I'd be happy to help look into
>> this.
>>
>> As an aside I have had a long running interest in creating a large,
>> beautiful and freely reusable collection of pictograms for use in open
>> data projects (a bit like Otto Neurath's Isotype Institute did in the
>> 1930s). I'd be very pleased if we now have an excuse to look into
>> making this! ;-)
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Friedrich Lindenberg
>> <friedrich at pudo.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Gregor Aisch<gka at vis4.net>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> just thought a bit about the details of the visual style I'm going to
>>>> use
>>>> for the energy visualization. I kind of like the style of WDMMG and
>>>> would
>>>> suggest to adapt it as far as possible (fonts&  colors).
>>>
>>> Great idea, if these two look related it would be fantastic.
>>>
>>>> What do you think about thís icon style?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-14220065-icon-set-energy-and-industry.php
>>>>
>>>> http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-11257146-icon-set-environment.php
>>>
>>> There's also a lot of good icons on WikiCommons, see here:
>>>
>>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Symbols
>>>
>>> They're often PD, so its an excellent resource!
>>>
>>> Friedrich
>>>
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